In 1837, Vyse opened 4 chambers, each of which contained inscriptions, the other chamber opend by davidson contains none.

With only one trivial exception, all of the inscriptions he found were on the N S & W walls, not the east wall he broke though with dynamite.

His diaries contained an alteration showing that he found a stone fragment with khufu's name after opening the chambers.

wellington's chamber, the first one opened contained a cartouche, but nothing was said publicly nor were any experts allowed to view it untill may 19th after the first chamber had been opened for 6 weeks. On Apr 14th the british cosul requested a copy of the inscritions, but Vyse instead had his artists copy the ones in a nearby tomb.

Mariette refused to acknowledge their validity & Gardiner doesn't mention them at all in his history.

Perring the artist wrote, that the red ochre paint was still used in 1837 & "such is the state of the preservationthat it is difficult to distiguish between marks of today & those of 3000 years ago.

The crew - khufu inspires love is a little suspicious, as other such workers comments are less evangelizing of their boss, eg The crew - menkaure is drunk, is a good example.

the 2nd "workers" inscriptionis The craftsmen's crew - the white crown of khunum kuefui is powerful. This uses the Hem glyph, which is a drill, this is associated with fine art craftsmen, not the masons who make massive blocks. a similar inscription is found on a decorated adze The crew - beloved white crown of sneferu craftsmen's division.similar ones are found on other artistic objects The arbuthnot chamber contains 6 different attempts to produce the khunum kuefui cartouche.

The entire theory of who built the great pyramid is based on these many mispellings, rubbings out & numerous failed attempts to write a simple phrase.

The "one trivial exception" you mention as to location of the inscriptions is the basis for accepting their reality.
One of the inscriptions, done in red ocher, is half-way UNDER a block. The only way it could get that way was if it was on the block BEFORE it was placed in the pyramid.

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